Its been exposed that Uniforum SA, the allegedly AU and African Government endorsed Competition to DotConnectAfrica for the .africa TLD, does have the claimed endorsement that they have been reporting on the news media quite widely. . Additionally Uniforum’s purported AU endorsements has also been in dispute for a long time now and subject to an objection by …
The position of GAC and its importance in the ICANN new gTLD progress is being placed in a very tight spot over the relevance and the practicability of the recommendations that it has offered on the new gTLD applications and more specifically the Safeguard Advice. GAC entered ICANN as one of the arms that would …
DotConnectAfrica in a spirited effort to secure its application on .africa that has lately been a victim of GAC advice during the just concluded ICANN Beijing 46th meeting has called the GAC Advice anti-competitive saying: “we see the GAC Policy Advice as a wrong step, and against the explicit commitment to fair competition …
ICANN has currently placed the GAC advice that was given during the 46th meeting in Beijing China, according to the announcement “On 11 April 2013, the Governmental Advisory Committee issued its Beijing Communiqué in which it provided advice on New gTLDs. The Board New gTLD Committee, acting on behalf of the full Board, will now …
Africa has 17 applications, 4 being geographic gTLDS, including ” .africa” which according the guidebook: “An application for a string listed as a UNESCO regions or appearing on the “Composition of macro geographical (continental) regions, geographical sub-regions, and selected economic and other groupings” In the case of an application for a string appearing on …
DotConnectAfrica has received a GAC consensus advice on .africa through the ICANN GAC. The GAC early warnings which lead to a GAC advice has already been criticized for corruption and nepotism. This current one was also marred with irregularities and inconsistencies that have made GAC lose its credibility in the eyes of many internet governance participants and observers. DotConnectAfrica has survived all objections so far …
“If ICANN were to delegate the gTLD to DCA despite the AUC’s endorsement of UniForum, it is likely that the AUC would lose faith in ICANN and its structures.” “Such conspiracies that are being contrived and hatched by the opponents of DCA Trust with the active connivance of DomainIncite will fail.” The statement …
“If ICANN were to delegate the gTLD to DCA despite the AUC’s endorsement of UniForum, it is likely that the AUC would lose faith in ICANN and its structures.” The statement above that is part of Uniforum’s reply to the Independent Objector is reminiscent of the bureaucracy that is magnificent in the existing structures that …
The ICANN Independent objector has concluded that he would not object to DotConnectAfrica’s .africa application. The IO may have also appeared to be overreaching his mandate predetermining DCA’s case before hand. In his response to the .africa, a gTLD that we have been following closely, the ICANN IO concluded he would not object to DCA’s application and …
A flurry of response exchanges were featured in last week between the Domain on industry columnist Kevin Murphy of DomainIncite and DotConnectAfrica (DCA), one of gTLD applicants for .africa. DCA sent two rejoinders in 24 hours responding to his comments and to provide detailed answers with an aim to clarify what it has termed …